Volume 54, Number 13 · August 16, 2007
Iraq: The Way to Go
By Peter W. Galbraith
On May 30, the Coalition held a ceremony in the Kurdistan town of Erbil to mark its handover of security in Iraq's three Kurdish provinces from the Coalition to the Iraqi government. General Benjamin Mixon, the US commander for northern Iraq, praised the Iraqi government for overseeing all aspects of the handover. And he drew attention to the 'benchmark' now achieved: with the handover, he said, Iraqis now controlled security in seven of Iraq's eighteen provinces.
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